Judah’s King Ahaziah
25 In the twelfth year of Israel’s King Joram son of Ahab, 8:25–29 2Ch 22:1–6 Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah. 8:25 2Kg 9:2926 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah, granddaughter of Israel’s King Omri. 8:26 1Kg 16:23; 2Ch 22:227 He walked in the ways of the house of Ahab and did what was evil in the Lord’s sight like the house of Ahab, 8:27 2Ch 22:3 for his father had married into 8:27 Lit for he was related by marriage to the house of Ahab.
28 Ahaziah went with Joram son of Ahab to fight against King Hazael 8:28 1Kg 19:15 of Aram in Ramoth-gilead, 8:28 1Kg 22:3,29 and the Arameans wounded Joram. 29 So King Joram returned to Jezreel 8:29 1Kg 21:1 to recover from the wounds that the Arameans had inflicted on him in Ramoth-gilead 8:29 Lit Ramah when he fought against Aram’s King Hazael. 8:29 2Kg 9:15 Then Judah’s King Ahaziah son of Jehoram went down to Jezreel to visit Joram son of Ahab since Joram was ill.